In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become … ineffective in reducing poverty, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …

Policy makers are generally interested in both the anti-poverty impact and the efficiency of reforms. To connect these … two dimensions, I measure the poverty gap change per unit of net revenue that tax-benefit reforms produce. To isolate the … impact of reforms and account for labour supply responses, I apply a microsimulation decomposition framework to poverty gap …

In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become … ineffective in reducing poverty, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …

argued that the program -- designed largely to cut relatively small checks -- failed to end poverty or promote work. After …

A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We …

Existing sociological research on support for anti-poverty programs largely focuses on broad categories of welfare or …, we examine whether support for anti-poverty programs is consistent across different types of anti-poverty programs. We … obligation, only food stamps remain more popular than cash welfare. The qualitative findings show that when evaluating anti-poverty …